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lunedì 12 maggio 2014

'Crucifixion killer' to remain jailed

Judge rules plumber lucid and flight risk

(ANSA)
- Florence, May 12 - A Florence judge on Monday denied release from
prison for Riccardo Viti, the plumber accused of "crucifying"
and murdering a Romanian prostitute. Judge Anna Donatella Liguori
wrote in her motivations for Viti's continued incarceration that
since Viti had shown remorse, he was lucid, and thus capable of
understanding, wanting and being aware of what he was doing.

She
also wrote he was at risk of fleeing if released. Viti admitted to
killing the woman between May 4-5 under interrogation, his defense
attorney Alessandro Benelli told the Tuscan broadcaster TGR RAI. The
suspect said "he would give his life to be able to restore the
life of the girl", said Benelli, who is seeking house arrest for
his client. Viti, who is charged with murder, sexual assault and
kidnapping, is suspected of carrying out as many as nine other rapes
of sex workers, police say.

One
prostitute said she would have been killed by Viti during a sexual
assault last March if he hadn't been interrupted by a barking dog and
footsteps, said the woman's lawyer, Nicodemo Gentile, who is
representing her as a victim in the case. One woman testified that
she, too, would have been killed by Viti in March if a dog had not
barked and people Viti's DNA was found on three other raped
prostitutes in addition to the Romanian who died from his assault
near Florence, the sources said.